Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2010
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper vs Digital
Good piece in the always interesting Neuroscience marketing blog. Does paper advertising beat digital? " .... According to the study, physical media left a
From Wild WebMink
? Status.Net Finds Twitter
ABC “Unofficially” Partners with Twitter-Alternative StatusNet The flexibility and open source code of Status.Net make it a natural vehicle for internal/private network micro-blogging (we hope to use it in ForgeRock and it was…
From Schneier on Security
Putting Unique Codes on Objects to Detect Counterfeiting
This will help some.
At least two rival systems plan to put unique codes on packages containing antimalarials and other medications. Buyers will be able to text the code to a phone number on the package and get an immediate …From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling interview by Rhys Hughes
Last week, La Stampa newspaper of Turin, Italy published an interview with Bruce Sterling, conducted by Welsh writer and essayist Rhys Hughes. The complete English version of the interview has now been posted on fortykey (which…
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling interview by Rhys Hughes
Last week, La Stampa newspaper of Turin, Italy published an interview with Bruce Sterling, conducted by Welsh writer and essayist Rhys Hughes. The complete English version of the interview has now been posted on fortykey (which…
From Putting People First
Is social media catalyzing an offline sharing economy?
The results of Latitude Research and Shareable Magazine‘s The New Sharing Economy study released today indicate that online sharing does indeed seem to encourage people to share offline resources such as cars and bikes, largely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyeballs Out is now Available!
Donna Sturgess' book is now out ... Very nicely done. Excellent reviews on Amazon. An intriguing, great read. Novel look at making your business thrive. From my previous review: I just read Donna Sturgess' new book: Eyeballs…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Notes on the Hopper K-12 Town Hall
For the second year in a row, the Grace Hopper Conference included a Town Hall meeting on K-12 CS education, bringing together K-12 teachers with people from industry, academia, and research. One of the questions discussed was…
From Wild WebMink
? Awe
Offrez moi votre silence by Thierry Dreyfus, photo by y.caradec. The huge public art event in Paris this weekend – Nuit Blanche – included some works on an absolutely monumental scale. One bridge was covered with a huge scaffolding…
From BLOG@CACM
UIST 2010: Papers of the First Day
UIST 2010 started on October 4th in New York. A cool breeze and a light rain makes it the perfect time for a symposium. Great papers are presented, and I'm writing about just a few of them to highlight the event.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text on Social Media
I see that former colleague Krista Neher, of Boot Camp Digital, is writing a textbook on social media. See more about her report on the process.
From Wild WebMink
? Rehost And Carry On
I spent the last two days in Brussels with many of the key participants
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humanoid Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: The rise of the humanoid robotics. This article has lots of links and examples of the humanoid robotic. Pictures, often frightening, as well. I have seen a few of these and they are still fairly primitive from…
From Putting People First
Depth of field: Film in design research
Timo Arnall and Einar Sneve Martinussen have published the article “Depth of field: discursive design research through film,” which discusses the role of film in interaction and product design research, and the use of film in…
From Putting People First
What is user experience design? Overview, tools and resources
Jacob Gube has published a guide on Smashing Magazine that aims to familiarize us with the professional discipline of UX design in the context of Web-based systems such as websites and applications. Read guide
From Putting People First
Visualisations in service design
Fabian Segelstr
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women
From the Communications of ACM blog:Research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) gave an excellent talk on recruiting and retaining women in computer science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Home Store
Amazon has opened a connected home store. This is a particularly good idea. It brings to mind work we did in setting up innovation center 'future homes'. It works well only if it provides the right level of support for the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Offers Media Era Green Stamps
A novel and interesting approach, but does it engage to purchase?In Adage: P&G Program Will Offer Social-Media-Era 'Green Stamps'Deal With RecycleBank Gives Reward Points for Recycling, Green Education and Blogging ... "
From Computational Complexity
Partha Niyogi (1967-2010)
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing CAPTCHAs
New research: "Attacks and Design of Image Recognition CAPTCHAs."
Abstract. We systematically study the design of image recognition CAPTCHAs (IRCs) in this paper. We first review and examine all IRCs schemes known to us and…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should Johnny Learn to Program?
Last week I shared a link on Facebook - Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
From Putting People First
Visualisations in service design
Fabian Segelstr
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Open Courseware not Paywalled
There were rumors that the 2000 plus courses that MIT is offering free online would soon the charged for in some way. The rumors were denied this week. The remarkable offering, which I have browsed and also recommended in astill…
From BLOG@CACM
Technology Transfer: A Contact Sport
The success or failure of technology transfer depends on many factors. No single mechanism is guaranteed to succeed, though there are many mechanisms that are likely to fail.
From BLOG@CACM
NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women
NCWIT research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon spoke about recruitment and retention of women in computer science at this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Read a summary of the wealth of information…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation of Consumer Loyalty
A good piece from the Harvard Business review voices on the next generation of location and consumer loyalty systems. Foursquare and beyond. "These experiments have generated excitement, but they only scratch the surface of…
From Schneier on Security
Sky Marshals Flying First Class
I regularly say that security decisions are primarily made for non-security reasons. This article about the placement of sky marshals on airplanes is an excellent example. Basically, the airlines would prefer they fly coach…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Farnam Jahanian to be CISE AD
Farnam Jahanian, Professor and Chair of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, today was named the next Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at NSF, effective February…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auctioning the Right to Use Laptops in Class
This is interesting. Ten years ago I had a conversation with a professor at Wharton who had been part of the redesign of some of the large classrooms in new buildings there. I asked about wireless access for laptops in theNicholas…